World War II Posters: Don't talk about ship movement or cargo
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| Careless talk costs
lives Artist: Al Doria WPA War Services of LA, [1941-1943] Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). |
This happens when
you talk to others about ship sailings : Let's make New Orleans a safe
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| Dont
tell him what you know about.... troop concentrations, departures .... arrivals. Artist: Russell W. Kraus, [1941-1943] [Missouri] : MO WPA Art Project St. Louis, Missouri. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). |
Bits of careless talk
are pieced together by the enemy: convoy sails for England tonight Publisher: Distributed by O.W.I., Artist: Stevan Dohanos, 1943 Dimensions: 27.5 x 19.6 inches [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. :Notes: "U.S. War Dept., Army Service Forces, Adjutant General's Dept."--Monthly catalog 1944, p. 597. |
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| Rumors
cost us lives. "U-Boat Captain Kills 22 sailors" Dimensions 26 x 20 inches Form 1S5687RE |
Closed for the duration.
loose talk can cost lives Artist: Howard Scott, 1942 Issued by the British and American Ambulance Corps 19.25 x 12.75 in. |
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| Loose
Talk can cost Lives! Keep it under your Stetson Artist: Glenn Grohe Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches Stetson Hat Company |
Loose talk can cost
lives Artist: Stevan Dohanos, 1942 Distributed in the interest of national defence, and as a means of obtaining funds for ambulances wherever needed, British and American Ambulance Corps, Inc. 420 Lexington Avenur, New York City. Dimensions 19.25 x 12.75 inches |
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| Someone
talked! Artist: Frederick Siebel, 1942 Dimensions: 40 x 28 inches Office of War Information [Washington, D.C.] OWI Poster No. 18 U. S. Government Printing Office: 1942--O-496733" |
Somebody blabbed...
don't talk about ship movements! ...don't talk about war production!: button
your lip! Artist: Albert Dorne, 1942 Dimensions: 10 x 7 inches Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures, Washington, D. C.451041. U. S. Government Printing Office : 1942--O |
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| A Careless
word. a needless loss Artist: Anton Otto Fischer, 1943 Dimensions: 28 x 22 inches OWI Poster No. 36 Office of War Information, Washington, D.C U. S. Government Printing Office : 1943--O-506018 |
A Careless word. a
needless sinking Artist: Anton Otto Fischer, 1942 Dimensions: 28 x 22 inches OWI Poster No. 24 Office of War Information, Washington, D.C U. S. Government Printing Office :1942--O-502219 |
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| Award
for careless talk don't discuss troop movements ship sailings war equipment Artist: Stevan Dohanos, 1944 Dimensions: 26 x 20 inches Office of War Information U. S. Government Printing Office : 1944--O-602587 |
Someone talked!
U.S. Ship Sunk By |
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| Someone
Spoke Out of Turn ... |
Warning! |
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| Think - sailors have
died To give you this ride! BE FAIR! Wood cut by Frances O'Brien Garfield and Ernest Hamlin Laker? Designed for Putnam County War Council, Carmel N.Y. |
A War Message Don't Discuss Troop Movements Ship Sailings War Equipment Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services (03/09/1943 - 09/15/1945) |
11/17/14
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